Author Talks & Lectures
Wayson Choy, Member of the Order of Canada, Riverdale resident, will talk to us about "A Writer's Life -- about writing The Jade Peony to almost dying, but Not Yet".
George Eliot?s great multi-plotted novel of middle-class life in early 19th century England interweaves stories of people facing crucial romantic and vocational choices. As the two principal protagonists, struggling with the...
Ovid was Rome's most prolific and famous poet in the eighth century, when he put into circulation his great poem about transformation, the Metamorphoses, a literary masterpiece that has inspired generations of artists, write...
Dr. Shabir Ally, president of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre (Ph.D from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Qur'anic Exegesis) speaks on the rise of intellectual activity among Muslims during the Abbasi...
3 monthly speakers x 3 monthly topics = 1, 000 ideas! Discover new ideas, ways of thinking and styles of presentation. While our speakers appear to have nothing in common, Treehouse knows that where three ideas collide, count...
Charles Dickens' Bleak House features a complex plot intermixing satire and comedy within the story of an uncaring society.
Presented by Metroland Media and Toronto Public Library.
Lois Lowry is the author of many distinguished books for young readers, including the Anastasia, Sam, Gooney Bird and Giver series. She was awarded the Newbery Medal for Number the Stars (1990) and for The Giver (1994), and i...
Detective Ari Greene, is arrested for first degree murder by his young protege, Dan Kennicott. House- bound, Greene must work to clear his name and to come to terms with the fact that people are not what they seem and the hig...
Meet First Nations Author and Poet Giles Benaway (Anishinaabe/Metis/Tsagli) as he explores the haunting themes of inter-generational trauma, cyclical abuse and inherited grief in his new book "Ceremonies for the Dead."